Season 3 follows the fortunes of a young U-boat crew as they engage in the Battle of the Atlantic, are hunted down by an obsessed Royal Navy Commander (Ray Stevenson) and are sent on a dangerous mission to the Southern Hemisphere. Together they form strong personal alliances under the command of Robert Ehrenberg (Franz Dinda).
　　And yet Ehrenberg's thoughts remain in Kiel, where he has developed feelings for Greta (Elisa Schlott). The young mother is married to a man who is seriously injured and suffering from war neurosis. Also in Kiel, Wilhelm Hoffmann's daughter Hannie (Luise Wolfram) is trapped in a loveless marriage to Commander Albrecht Lessing (Florian Panzner), a bitter, emotionally distant man. Hannie suffers under the tight constraints of her status and the social expectations that go with it. When she meets the charming submarine commander Schulz (Pierre Kiwitt), she is playing with fire.
　　Meanwhile in the exotic climes of neutral Lisbon where the exiles, spies and criminals of Europe rub shoulders with each other and their enemies, Hagen Forster (Tom Wlaschiha) discovers a lethal plot to steal a fortune in plundered war time gold. These discoveries and aspects of his own history deriving from dark experiences on the Eastern front, lead him to question his own actions and moral path. They also lead him to a shadowy figure caught up in a conspiracy that might change the course of the War - for the better. That man, very much changed by his own shattering experiences, is Klaus Hoffmann (Rick Okon). These two historically based strands come together in an unexpected, thrilling finale.

南宋淳祐二年(1242年)，四川安抚制置史兼重庆知府余始筑钓鱼城。1258年，蒙哥大汗挟西征欧亚非40余国的威势，分兵三路伐宋。蒙哥亲率的一路军马进犯四川，于次年2月兵临合川钓鱼城。蒙哥铁骑东征西讨，所向披靡,然而在钓鱼城主将王坚与副将张珏的顽强抗击下，却不能越雷池半步。7月，蒙哥被城上火炮击伤，后逝于温泉寺。钓鱼城保卫战长逾36年，写下了中外战争史上罕见的以弱胜强的战例，钓鱼城因此被欧洲人誉为“东方麦加城”、“上帝折鞭处”。